Glenn Close lets out a guttural scream in the Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery teaser trailer. Josh O’Connor has blood on his hands. Andrew Scott is being eaten alive by catholic guilt. And above all, Daniel Craig‘s Benoit Blanc is back to get to the bottom of …
Read More »'Wake Up Dead Man' Takes Murder-Mystery Fans to Church (Literally)
This will be a spoiler-free review of Wake Up Dead Man. Mostly. We will tell you that it is Rian Johnson‘s third movie in his murder-mystery franchise involving a deductive sleuth mixing it up with a host of classic murder-mystery archetypes. We will list its cast members, which — as …
Read More »Everything We Know About 'Knives Out 3'
Rian Johnson, the writer and director behind Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, loves whodunits, particularly due to “how malleable the genre is,” he shared on X last month. Johnson, who considers Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile(1978) andEvil Under the Sun(1982) touchstone films, announced the latest …
Read More »How Josh O'Connor Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Playing a Jerk
Josh O’Connor would very much love to fuck off into the woods with a stick. It’s a deceptively warm April day in New York City and O’Connor, who looks brighter than anyone who was awake before the sun has a right to look, is hunched over conspiratorially to share what …
Read More »'Challengers' Is Sex, Tennis and Zendaya in Full Beast Mode, Not in That Order
You will never see sweat shot as lovingly, as carefully, or as carnally as you see it filmed in Challengers, Luca Guadagnino‘s doubles match of tennis drama and tortured love triangle. It virtually glistens off of the two male players competing to win — on the court, off the court, …
Read More »What's the Story Behind the 'I Told Ya' T-Shirt in 'Challengers'?
When Zendaya attended a screening of her new sultry tennis drama Challengers this week, she wore a gray T-shirt with the words “I Told Ya” printed in bold black letters. The casual shirt was a noticeable change from the crisp whites and sour greens of the tennis-themed couture the star …
Read More »'La Chimera': Josh O'Connor Digs His Own Grave — and Comes Back a Star
Legend has it that if you were to stroll around Riparbella, a small Italian village in the rural part of Tuscany, you would come across a number of tombs. Some were hidden, some were open, and many of these underground burial sites were more than 2000 years old, filled with …
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